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[Fwd: Re-visiting Romanesque sculpture in Britain and Ireland]
by James Cummings 10 Aug '05

10 Aug '05

FYI -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re-visiting Romanesque sculpture in Britain and Ireland Date: Wed, 10 Aug 2005 11:13:10 +0100 From: AHDS Visual Arts <info(a)VADS.AHDS.AC.UK> Reply-To: AHDS Visual Arts <AHDS-VISUALARTS(a)JISCMAIL.AC.UK> To: AHDS-VISUALARTS(a)JISCMAIL.AC.UK Romanesque stone sculpture pervades buildings throughout Britain and Ireland. It can be found in parish churches and cathedrals, houses and halls, castles and museums throughout these isles. Rarely, however, do we get to spend time actually looking at this rich part of our heritage in detail. A new resource of over 10,000 images is now available via AHDS Visual Arts that lets you do just that. The Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland (CRSBI) is an electronic archive of British and Irish Romanesque stone sculpture. It exists to photograph and record all the surviving sculpture, making this important part of British and Irish heritage available over the internet. The significance of this evolving project as an authoritative scholarly resource cannot be understated as significant quantities of previously unrecorded material have come to light and there are many examples of sculpture that are being recorded, catalogued and photographed in an academic context for the first time. Records of Romanesque sculpture in Bedfordshire, Berkshire, Cambridgeshire (including Ely Cathedral), Cheshire, Hampshire, Huntingdonshire, Kent, Lincolnshire, Northamptonshire, Sussex, Warwickshire and Worcestershire are already available online. CRSBI complements other AHDS Visual Arts’ architecture and sculpture based resources including the Exeter Cathedral Keystones & Carvings: A Catalogue Raisonné of the Sculptures & their Polychromy collection (http://vads.ahds.ac.uk/collections/ECKC.html) and the Public Monuments and Sculpture Association collection which contains images and textual information on over 2,300 public sculptures and monuments in Britain (http://vads.ahds.ac.uk/collections/PMSA.html). For more information on CRSBI please go to: http://vads.ahds.ac.uk/collections/CRSBI.html View the CRSBI collection and the entire AHDS Visual Arts catalogue at http://visualarts.ahds.ac.uk -- Dr James Cummings, Oxford Text Archive, University of Oxford James dot Cummings at oucs dot ox dot ac dot uk

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dtd/schema generators?
by Daniel Paul O'Donnell 22 Jul '05

22 Jul '05

Hi, There used to be a very good (free) dtd and schema generator at http://www.hitsw.com/xml_utilites/. This site allowed you to upload an xml file and produce a rough Document Type Definition (dtd) or Schema file that was suitable for tweaking. I used it as recently as this past April, but it doesn't seem to be there any more. Does anybody know of an equivalent? -- Daniel Paul O'Donnell <daniel.odonnell(a)uleth.ca> University of Lethbridge

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CFP: International Medieval Congress, Leeds 2006, Digital Medievalist Sessions (01-Sept-2005; 10-13-July-2006)
by James Cummings 08 Jul '05

08 Jul '05

Call For Papers: International Medieval Congress 2006, Leeds Digital Medievalist Abstract Submission Deadline: 1 September, 2005 The Digital Medievalist project invites abstracts to be submitted for 20 minute papers to be delivered in either of two sessions at the thirteenth International Medieval Congress which will take place in Leeds, UK, from 10-13 July 2006. Session Abstracts: Digital Medievalist General Session: Electronic Surrogates The general session investigates any use of digital technology in Medieval Studies, but especially concentrates on the formulation of best practice in digital resource creation, particularly the problems and possibilities of electronic 'surrogates' (e.g. electronic representations of primary material, including but not limited to editions, facsimiles, databases) in researching the Middle Ages. Digital Medievalist Specific Session: Text vs Data The specific session focuses on the nature of textual data in electronic editions. Are there fundamental differences between primary source text when it is seen as text and when it is seen as data (e.g. in a textual database)? What are the benefits and drawbacks of one over the other? How do the differences affect our research with electronic media? To submit proposals for either of these sessions please fill out the online form available at http://purl.org/cummings/DM-Leeds2006.html before 1 September, 2005. --James Cummings Digital Medievalist Project. www.digitalmedievalist.org

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Fonts
by Abdullah Alger 08 Jul '05

08 Jul '05

Does anyone know where I can download a font which has tironian notae and punctus elevatus? Abdullah

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Many hands make light work?
by Daniel Paul O'Donnell 04 Jul '05

04 Jul '05

Hi all, I'm writing to encourage members of the list to add to Wiki entries anything useful or interesting they see on, receive from, or contribute to the list. To name some recent examples: if you are the member of a project, institute or organisation, please consider adding a brief profile (see http://sql.uleth.ca/dmorgwiki/index.php/Projects for other examples); if you know or learn of a special font or tool, consider adding a page about it or adding to a relevant existing entry; if you see a term or acronym you didn't understand, consider adding an entry on it once you know what it means. Adding to the Wiki is really quite a quick and simple process (especially after you've tried once) and it is difficult for much to go wrong: we can undo any changes (you can do so yourself), and a couple of us keep track of all changes to the wiki to look for formatting errors, etc. we can repair. The goal here is not to add a burden to posters to the list (we are all busy people and don't necessarily have the time to answer questions twice). But the Wiki is in some ways intended to serve as the collective intelligence of the community. Just as on other lists, poster often post summaries of replies they receive to questions, on this list, you can post answers to the Wiki. Any attention you can devote to this, is very much appreciated. -d -- Dr. Daniel Paul O'Donnell Associate Professor of English Director, Digital Medievalist Project University of Lethbridge Lethbridge AB T1K 3M4 vox: +1 (403) 329-2377 fax: +1 (403) 382-7191 URL: http://people.uleth.ca/~daniel.odonnell/ Digital Medievalist Project: http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/ (@wiglaf)

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Junicode semi-final
by Peter Baker 01 Jul '05

01 Jul '05

I can now say with a fair amount of confidence that the next version of Junicode, 0.6.5, is in stable condition. That is, it installs correctly under Windows, Linux and the latest version of OS X, and all the programming works, to the extent that I have been able to test it. Get it at this URL: http://www.engl.virginia.edu/OE/junicode/junicode.html Click the "Beta" link at the very bottom. I will not promote this to official release status until I have brought the documentation up to date, but the fonts themselves should not change. As has generally been the case, the Regular style is much fuller than the bold, italic, and bold italic. When I get urgent requests for bold or italic characters to match the regular ones, I do try to comply. Many thanks to Mark Stansbury for stress-testing under OS X. Peter Baker

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Re: dm-l Digest, Vol 11, Issue 6
by Martin Holmes 01 Jul '05

01 Jul '05

Hi there, Responding to Dieter's post below: first I'd like to thank you for your XDOM libraries, which I'm beginning to use for some of my Delphi projects. Great work! I agree that scholars currently have little to gain from developing tools, from the point of view of their academic careers. However, there's another group of individuals like me, who are working in the academic context as programmers and in similar roles, who do this kind of work for a living. John Bradley would be another good example. Our work initially got going in the realm of language teaching support (Computer-Assisted Language Learning), giving birth to quite widely-used tools such as our Hot Potatoes programs; recently, we've morphed from a Language Centre into a Humanities Computing and Media Centre, and our work is focused more and more on HC, digital documents and encoding. Our experience has been that when we release tools which gain approval and acceptance, the university is generally pleased and appreciative; they've also helped us spin off some of our work commercially, to everyone's financial benefit. While individual departments and tenure committees may not (yet) give much weight to this kind of work, other parts of the university administration are more supportive. The emergence of centres such as ours, which have relatively stable workforces (as opposed to the ad-hoc temporary hires associated with grant-supported projects) means that tools tend to be rewritten and updated steadily, which gives them more credibility (Hot Potatoes is now at version 6, for example, and has been out since 1997). This model of tool development, where a centre with long-term staff creates tools for the use of several projects, and maintains them over time, is much more likely to be successful than the case where an academic working on a temporarily-funded project hires in programmers to write something for a specific purpose, releases it, then moves on to the next piece of research, leaving the code to languish like an abandoned vehicle in a field (which is what "open-sourcing" a project often turns out to mean). Cheers, Martin At 09:37 AM 29/06/2005, you wrote: >Date: Fri, 24 Jun 2005 13:14:24 +0200 >From: Dieter K?hler <d.k(a)philo.de> >Subject: [dm-l] Tools for humanities computing (WAS: Are markup > languages obsolete?) >To: dm-l(a)uleth.ca >Message-ID: <5.2.1.1.0.20050624114827.025b2050(a)pop3.philo.de> >Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"; format=flowed > >I often think that the free "tools" aspect had been underestimated in >humanities computing. Of course, there exist a couple of good examples like >the TEI XSLT style sheets or some open source archival software etc. >Nevertheless, the situation is not satisfactory and I wonder what are its >causes and by which means it could possibly be improved. Briefly >summarized the main causes, I can think of, are the following: > >- Most software development in the humanities takes place in an ad hoc >fashion: People have specific problems and develop specific solutions. >- There is a lack of institutional support for developing tools for others. >Tools are only by-products. >- If there is institutional support for developing tools for others, these >tools need to be sold in order to re-finance the work. >- It is not advisable for a scholar trying to build an academic career on >developing tools for humanities computing. >- There exists no academic infrastructure *focused* on developing tools for >the humanities, ie. a specific society, journal and annual conference. > >Since one of my main research interests is considered with the development >of tools for humanities computing, I would be very interested in the >opinions of others on the above list of causes. Perhaps together we could >find ways to improve the situation. > >Dieter Köhler > >Institute of Philosophy and >Centre for Multimedia Studies >University of Karlsruhe >Germany ______________________________________ Martin Holmes University of Victoria Humanities Computing and Media Centre mholmes(a)uvic.ca martin(a)mholmes.com mholmes(a)halfbakedsoftware.com http://www.mholmes.com http://web.uvic.ca/hcmc/ http://www.halfbakedsoftware.com

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[Fwd: Announcing Easymacs: an all-in-one Emacs configuration for new users.]
by Daniel Paul O'Donnell 30 Jun '05

30 Jun '05

FYI. Emacs is a very useful editor for XML work, but has a reputation for being difficult to learn to use. The "TEI-Emacs" mentioned in the e-mail, is a customised version of Emacs distributed by the Text Encoding Initiative (the major flavour of XML used in our area). I've not tried this editor out yet, as I don't see any information on whether it will conflict irreparably with my working version of the latest TEI emacs. But especially for those who have not invested a lot of time in learning the original version, this might be worth looking into. I've not added this to our wiki entry on XML editors yet (http://sql.uleth.ca/dmorgwiki/index.php/XML_Editors), nor is there a project page for it (http://sql.uleth.ca/dmorgwiki/index.php/Projects). But I will try to get to it toot sweet. Currently the XML editors page lists emacs (regular) and Oxygen (a commercial editor) as options. People often have quite strong feelings about their editors. If you know of/love another, perhaps you might like to add information about it? -dan -- Dr. Daniel Paul O'Donnell Associate Professor of English Director, Digital Medievalist Project University of Lethbridge Lethbridge AB T1K 3M4 vox: +1 (403) 329-2377 fax: +1 (403) 382-7191 URL: http://people.uleth.ca/~daniel.odonnell/ Digital Medievalist Project: http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/ (@wiglaf)

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Junicode beta posted
by Peter Baker 29 Jun '05

29 Jun '05

By way more (I hope) of a plea for help than of self-promotion: I've posted a beta of Junicode 0.6.5 on my website www.engl.virginia.edu/OE/junicode/junicode.html and I'm hoping that some members of this list will want to download and test it. I had hoped to completely implement the Medieval Unicode Font Initiative recommendation, but decided I should release it half-done. The latest version of OS X seems much pickier about fonts than earlier versions and some bugs in the current version were causing it to be rejected. Since I still can't test on OS X myself, I'm particularly hoping for help from Mac users. Though MUFI is not complete in this version, it nevertheless includes some substantial revisions. The number of characters in the "Regular" style has gone from something over 1400 to 1756, in large part because the whole of "Latin Extended Additional" (U+1E00 - U+1EF9) has now been implemented. In addition, "hinting" of the Regular and Bold styles has progressed far enough that nearly all documents produced by medievalists will look good on a computer screen. To download, scroll to the bottom and click on the link for the test version of 0.6.5. Sorry, no documentation yet; but members of this list will know what to do. Thanks, Peter

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re: [dm-l] Are markup languages obsolete?
by Patti Cossard 25 Jun '05

25 Jun '05

Hi, Facsimiles, high quality or otherwise, are in no way a substitution for a critically edited text. This is true in a print framework and remains true in a digital frame. Also, within scholarly economics, facsimiles are only reproductions, and while helping with dissemination, they do not add to critical knowledge. On the other hand critical editing is highly valued because it does add to knowledge. Digital markup and editing adds value to this already highly valued product because it facilitates searching, analysis, computer visualization of the results of that analysis, archiving and adaptive reuse by other scholars. Scholarly communication is undergoing a dramatic transformation. The abrogation of responsibilty by the scholarly community to strategically invest in technological advances to publish our most valued communication has led to a crisis. Relying upon commercial ventures to provide technical infrastructure is in conflict with the best interest of healthy collegial communication. The result is that the publication process is at risk of being distorted because commercial considerations often overshadow the intellectual goals of the product. Because these business practices are intertwined with the implementation of new technologies and its infrastructure, the problem of maintaining peer reviewed publication as the primary venue for scholarly discourse is becoming ever more complex . New technologies could lead scholarly communication down two different paths: One offers a rare opportunity to expand and accelerate the free flow of scholarly knowledge while the other could result in control and limitations on its dissemination. The transformation has both institutional and structural implications for the entire University community. The humanities community has a role to play in this transformation. As I see it, standards based structural language or computer skill, is essential to the health of scholarly economy as it provides a sustainable model for scholarly communication. And, it goes beyond just the markup language or information technology skill itself. The TEI consortium provides a community in which tools and knowledge are shared openly. It is at the forefront of creating a new realm of scholarly communication, blending the present with the past. Standards are the way the humanities will be able to fulfill a responsibility to making sure that their products are archivable, without which they are only ephemeral. Standards are a way to communicate with the technologies that are central to digital libraries and institutional digital repositories. Standards are a way to evaluate the quality of digital products. Being knowledgeable of them will be essential to ongoing professional professorial life, as university self-governance requires that faculty participate in service on APT committeess, overseeing strategic infrastructure investment, and, for humanities in particular, engagement with the library. I know this is probably at a higher level of conceptualization than your original question demanded, but I see all these issues as being intertwined. As the Chair of the Committee on Electronic Resources for the Medieval Academy, I've been thinking on a policy level and feel it is imperative for computing medievalists to be recognized as central to the future of our field. Pax et bonum, Patricia Kosco Cossard, M.A., M.L.S. currently Resident Fellow at MITH 5-8506 Subject Librarian for Architecture and Historic Preservation University of Maryland Libraries College Park, MD 20742 (301) 405-6316 office (301) 314-9583 fax pcossard(a)umd.edu Th

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